Love and Friendship

When you start a relationship in high school, there’s the perception that the whole thing is probably going to end when you graduate. And look, I’m not going to lie to you- there’s is a high chance the whole th...

When you’re in your final years of high school everyone will warn you that you will lose friends after you graduate. They’ll tell you that it’s hard to hold onto people once you finish high school; people chang...

Most parents completely write off high school relationships saying they’re ‘not real’, ‘you’ll never last’ and ‘it’s not like you’re going to get married.’
They act like our relationships when we’re young ar...

Alright, I’m admitting it, I want the cliché romance. I want the great teenage love story from all the movies. I want cheesy pick-up lines and first kisses that make you think everything is right in the world. ...

We go through so much pressure in our final year of high school. There’s pressure from our schools to make them look good in the school rankings, pressure from our friends to not be left behind, even pressure f...

You've probably endured more than a few talks on sexting over the course of your teenage years. Teachers and parents saying ‘don’t send them’, ‘nothing on the internet is private’ and ‘don’t post anything you w...

I'm giving up on finding friends at uni.
I’ve tried being outgoing, adding everyone from my tutes on Facebook and suggesting we go to the pub after every class. I’ve tried being quiet and agreeable, complime...

When people told me that me and my friends would drift apart after high school, I only half believed them. Yeah, I knew I’d lose a couple of people I was never really close to, but me and my best mates had surv...

Schools across Australia continue to emphasise group assignments in classrooms, despite the entire student body throwing up their hands in collective disgust. Collaboration in the workplace is a reality that yo...

I was pretty fucking excited to finish high school. I was finally going to be able to ditch the classes that I hated (sorry General Maths), the shitty people in my year that I had spent the past six years with ...

Losing a friend is bound to happen to you at some point, in one way or another. Maybe the two of you have a massive fight, or maybe you just drift apart. In any case, you need to learn how to deal with the loss...

My best friend in high school didn’t become my best friend till Year 8. We didn’t go to the same primary school and Year 7 was a weird transition year where I was still trying to figure out how to deal with bei...

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